The NICCO Directory of Resources provides details of the huge number of tools, activities, practice models and guidance that have been developed by agencies to support offenders and their children and families.
Whether you are working directly with children, supporting offenders to maintain parental contact, helping a parent to prepare their child for a prison visit or simply want to develop your own understanding of the criminal justice system, this directory provides you with a range of resources to support and inform your work.
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Find activities, books, films, sound bites and worksheets to support your work with children and young people. ViewOffenders and Families
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Find delivery models, case studies, local and national policies and guidlines, practice guides, briefings and resources for professional learning and development. View79. Tracks
Tracks is an online toolkit to support those working with Foreign National Prisoners and their families prepare for re-settlement on release. The toolkit covers liability for deportation, re-settlement planning and operational guidance for prison and probation staff. The website also hosts a library of useful information and resources. You can access the Tracks Toolkit below:
80. Visiting Prison
This short leaflet is aimed at enabling parents and carers (and potentially professionals) to prepare themselves, the children and young people for a prison visit. It offers useful information, discussion topics and things to consider under headings such as talking about the visit, preparing for a visit, the journey, the visit itself and how the child or young person may feel afterwards. There is also a short list of contacts for families that could support practically or emotionally.
81. Visitor Centre Website at HMP Featherstone
The visitor centre at HMP Featherstone has its own website. Darren Johnson, the Head of Reducing Re-offending explains how it came about. ‘Our visits centre is owned on lease from Featherstone Prison to the John Sandy Trust, our incumbent family service provider is Barnardo’s and in discussion we agreed that the regulated official website for Featherstone prison was very limited in its communication and advertising of the visits centre when families were accessing the site...
82. What Can You Do? - If someone you know has been accessing indecent images online
Produced by the Lucy Faithfull Foundation this online fact sheet is intended to support families of sex offenders. Specifically focusing on the offence of accessing indecent images of children, the fact sheet aims to address the questions and issues families may face when impacted by a loved one's offending behaviour. The fact sheet can be used by both parents, carers and professionals when supporting children of offenders impacted by this offence. The resource also includes a number of...
Click here83. What shall I tell the children?
This short leaflet details ways of dealing with telling a child that a parent is being sent to prison and can be used by both families and professionals. It covers questions such as what and when you might tell the child, how to deal with the future and whether other people need to know. The leaflet also contains a list of useful contacts for families which might help support a child in this situation. Download 'What shall I tell the children?' below.
